The Graduate Early Modern Student Society Presents the 2018 GEMSS Symposium “(Mis)appropriating the Past: The Uses and Abuses of History: The Uses and Abuses of History” Dr. Steven Nadler William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, Evjue-Bascom Professor in Humanities, Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, and Department of Philosophy Friday, April 27, 2018 8:00 AM …
“Scholars As Writers: The Fundamentals” Writing workshop with Alex Star – website Senior Editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux Co-sponsored by the English Department and the History Department. If you would like to participate in the workshop, please RSVP to Jennifer Stitt (stitt2@wisc.edu). The IHG is an informal, interdisciplinary working group for faculty, staff, …
A Room of One’s Own is honored to welcome the the fifth Annual Feminist Faculty Book Party! This year, we convene to celebrate the recently released work of: Emily Callaci Shelly Chan Kathryn Moeller Nicole C. Nelson Sue Robinson Sami Schalk Cherene Sherrard! Friday, April 27th, 2018 6:00 PM A Room Of One’s Own Bookstore …
“The Four Great Inventions: A Global History of Modern China.” Galen Poor History Ph.D. Candidate (Chinese History, History of Science and Technology) Friday, April 20, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 27th All Brown Bags are held in the Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) from …
“A Cold War Life of the Buddha” Anne Hansen Professor of History, UW–Madison “Monuments of the German Baseness: German War Art & American Occupation in the Postwar Period” Jennifer Gramer History Ph.D. Candidate, UW–Madison Monday, April 23, 2018 11:50 – 1:20 PM Curti Lounge with Kathryn Ciancia as moderator
“The Many Africas of the Grey Parrot” Nancy Jacobs Professor of History Brown University Wednesday, April 18, 2018 12:00 PM 206 Ingraham Hall Bring your lunch and enjoy complimentary African coffee roasted locally by JUST COFFEE.
“Rethinking Chemical Exposures towards Decolonial Futures” Michelle Murphy Professor of History & Women and Gender Studies Institute University of Toronto Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:00-5:30 PM 8417 Social Science How does settler colonialism shape the ways chemical exposures are currently studied and monitored? This talk discusses how settler colonial logics are embedded in the infrastructures …
“Domestic Cosmopolitanism: Rethinking Gender and Social Change in Republican China” Gail Hershatter Distinguished Professor of History UC Santa Cruz Thursday, April 19, 2018 5:30 – 7:00 PM Elvehjem Building Room L140 800 University Avenue How can we re-create the world of a woman who left no trace in the public record? This talk considers the …
“Injectable Development: The Global Imaginaries of Depo-Provera in the 1970s” Emily Calacci History Department UW–Madison Friday, April 13, 2018 12:00-1:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) Future Brown Bags Friday, April 20th Friday, April 27th All Brown Bags are held in the Curti Lounge (Rm. 5233 Humanities Bldg.) from 12:00-1:00 PM on Fridays.
“Two Vultures? Freud’s Psychoanalysis between ‘Jewish Science’ and Humanism” Scott Spector – University of Michigan Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature Wednesday, April 14, 2018 4:00 – 5:30 PM Union South (1308 W Dayton St.) Sigmund Freud’s revolutionary approach to the human mind—psychoanalysis—was a new science, and yet one that was from the …